Rogers explains ‘shaping' policy

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

>From the Globe and Mail:
    "Rogers explains ‘shaping' policy" 
    Network management has been misinterpreted and misunderstood, said Rogers chief strategist Mike Lee 
    <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080610.wgtrogers0610/EmailBNStory/Technology/home> 

 
This explanation is defective.

Clearly they cannot give every user maximum bandwidth all the time --
they are oversubscribed, and that is a good thing.

The question is how they should divy up the bandwidth.

The simplest fair answer is to divide it up by customer, not protocol.

One could also allow customers declare QoS requests in a way that would not
allow "gaming" of the system.
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